14 Mar 2010

Two new British polls point to indecisive election result

8:27 pm on 14 March 2010

Two new polls point to an indecisive result in Britain's upcoming election, with one suggesting the ruling Labour Party would emerge as the biggest party and the other giving the edge to opposition Conservatives.

A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times put the Conservatives on 37% ahead of Labour on 33% and the Liberal Democrats on 17%.

If repeated at the election widely expected on 6 May, it would give Labour 302 seats in parliament against 277 for the Conservatives.

Polls increasingly point to a hung parliament, in which no party has a majority, for the first time since 1974.

A second poll, by ICM for the Sunday Telegraph, showed the Conservative lead dropping to seven points from nine last month.